Introduction

The Vowels

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Phonetics
Is the study of the sounds of language.  These sounds are called phonemes.

Phonology
Is the study of the patterned interaction of speech sounds.

Grapheme
Is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound (phoneme) in a word. 

Phoneme
A phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.  Is a basic unit of a language's phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form meaningful units such as words or morphemes.

Vowel
Is a sound  that is produced when the air isn't disrupted.

Consonant
Is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.

Stress
Is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. The word accent is often used with this sense. The most popular system is to put a vertical line (ˈ) before the stressed syllable in the phonetic transcription of the word. Example: the transcription for become is /bɪˈkʌm/.


Intonation
The variation of tone used when speaking. It is used for a range of functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker.

Voiced Sound
The vowels emit vibration in vocal cords.


Voiceless Sound
No vibration emited.